Contributors
- Contributors
Edwin Amenta is Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and Origins of Modern Social Spending (Princeton University Press, 1998). He is currently writing a book on the consequences of social movements tentatively entitled When Do Movements Matter? The Impact of the Townsend Movement and American Social Spending Challengers.
Drew Halfmann is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at New York University. His dissertation examines the politics of abortion policy in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain from 1950 to 2000. His areas of interest include comparative and historical sociology, political sociology, social policy, social movements, and urban sociology.
Kimberly Morgan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of French Studies at New York University. Her dissertation, “Whose Hand Rocks the Cradle? The Politics of Child-Care Policy in Advanced Industrialized States,” is a comparative study of child-care policy.
Mara S. Sidney is assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University–Newark. Her research examines how race and ethnicity intersect with urban, housing, and education policies. She also studies the role of nonprofit groups in policymaking and policy implementation.
